Best Places In The World To Retire

The best thing to do in Casco Viejo is to eat out and experience the restaurants. There is a great variety of food here and the settings are perfect. It is not like in the States where the waiters are on top of you asking if you are going to have anything else from time to time, because for them it is important to turn the table as often as you can. In contrast, here in Panama, you will first have drinks, some wine, and then you order and you talk. Then you have a lot of after dinner...

The best thing to do in Casco Viejo is to eat out and experience the restaurants. There is a great variety of food here and the settings are perfect. It is not like in the States where the waiters are on top of you asking if you are going to have anything else from time to time, because for them it is important to turn the table as often as you can. In contrast, here in Panama, you will first have drinks, some wine, and then you order and you talk. Then you have a lot of after dinner drinks and before you know it, it has already been 3 or 4 hours. The restaurant owners or the waiters do not pressure you and that makes it for a nice moment.

On the other side of the cost spectrum, in Casco Viejo we also have outdoor stands where you can enjoy food that is very inexpensive. I personally enjoy that, too. You can also go to a bar on the rooftops and have good view of the bay. There are a lot of activities here in Casco Viejo, whether they are free or not.

There are some absolutely beautiful islands in the Algarve near the border of Spain. To go there, you have to take a 40-minute boat ride.  There are about six islands there. Only one of those six is deserted. 
 
Up the coast towards the north, there is another island that is inhabited called Berlengas. It is a small island off the coast of Peniche. They have little summer cottages there, a lighthouse, a couple of restaurants, and a ferry that takes people over.
 
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There are some absolutely beautiful islands in the Algarve near the border of Spain. To go there, you have to take a 40-minute boat ride.  There are about six islands there. Only one of those six is deserted. 
 
Up the coast towards the north, there is another island that is inhabited called Berlengas. It is a small island off the coast of Peniche. They have little summer cottages there, a lighthouse, a couple of restaurants, and a ferry that takes people over.
 
Because we are so surrounded by sea, on the far coast of Lisbon, we have a river, the Tagus, which separates Lisbon from the south. It is a large river that starts in Spain, crosses Portugal, and finishes in the mouth of Lisbon, at the Atlantic Ocean. So to go to the other side, you have to take bridges. There are three to four bridges. All of the land south of Lisbon, after these bridges, have a vast area of land very sandy, which are called the peninsulas. This is a natural reserve for dolphins. When you are on a boat or a ferry in these areas, you will see a lot of dolphins. Here, you will find an area called Tróia, which is a peninsula. Some of these areas become islands when it is high tide, which only happens at certain times of the year. It is a beautiful area of Portugal because this is where the river meets the sea. This is also a paradise for birdwatchers. They are now developing this area for tourism. A complex of condominiums were just built around this area with villas and timeshares. It is a vast area.
 
There is another development down in the Algarve, which is also in the peninsulas. This whole area is very stunning. It has lots of wildlife and they are very well preserved.  

 

(Tróia Peninsula, Portugal, pictured.)